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Hello guys:
I’m currently working on a website and I will like to create an online quiz for customers, the quiz will have 10 questions and will have textboxes for the user to enter email, first name, last name and the answers. I will give them the answer and then 4 multiple choice for them to choose and a text box for them to enter the answer:
1) Which Country singer is nicknamed the "Gentle Giant."
A) Porter Wagoner
B) Jim Ed Brown
C) Bobby Bare
D) Don Williams
Whenever they summit the test the script will make sure that all the questions were answer and that the email, first and last fields have been enter, if the user is missing something they will get a page showing them what fields are missing.
The next step is to save that info to a csv file on my ftp site I will like to include the following fields: Date, email, first, last, a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,a,7,a8,a
Then last stepis to send an email to the user showing them that they either answer all of the questions right or showing them which answers the mist and what the correct answer is.
I’m not to sure what script language to use. I’m good with html, average with java and don’t know too much about cgi or perl.
I need some guidance on how to accomplish this task. I really appreciate any tips or ideas
Thanks in advance.
I’m currently working on a website and I will like to create an online quiz for customers, the quiz will have 10 questions and will have textboxes for the user to enter email, first name, last name and the answers. I will give them the answer and then 4 multiple choice for them to choose and a text box for them to enter the answer:
1) Which Country singer is nicknamed the "Gentle Giant."
A) Porter Wagoner
B) Jim Ed Brown
C) Bobby Bare
D) Don Williams
Whenever they summit the test the script will make sure that all the questions were answer and that the email, first and last fields have been enter, if the user is missing something they will get a page showing them what fields are missing.
The next step is to save that info to a csv file on my ftp site I will like to include the following fields: Date, email, first, last, a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,a,7,a8,a
Then last stepis to send an email to the user showing them that they either answer all of the questions right or showing them which answers the mist and what the correct answer is.
I’m not to sure what script language to use. I’m good with html, average with java and don’t know too much about cgi or perl.
I need some guidance on how to accomplish this task. I really appreciate any tips or ideas
Thanks in advance.
ASKER
Thanks for the tip dasmaer, but I forgot to mention that at this moment we do not host our website in house and we don’t have much access to the back end of the site, as far as I know we are running MySQL 4.0 and the language used is EASY language very old and almost out dated. So with that in mind I really can’t use PHP since at this moment I cannot install a compiler on the server. What about creating the form using CGI? I don’t know much about it but will not mind learning it.
CGI is a technology rather than a language. Common Gateway Interface if memory serves me right. What it does is get the webserver to run requests past a system such as PHP, the JVM or Perl and then stream the result over HTTP.
You'd need to get something installed on the server to do the legwork, old CGI stuff was written in C and then Perl... after perl people stopped calling it CGI and started instead of refering to the scripting language in use. If you are on a Windows Server with IIS5(or over), then you will almost certainly have VBS installed so you can use ASP (unless you have a very paranoid Network Admin).
If the server is Apache and its on Unix, then you'll almost certainly have Perl somewhere already (I'd be shocked if it wasn't there). Because you're using MySQL the odds are you're server in UNIX of some flavour and Perl is the way forward for you.
You'd need to get something installed on the server to do the legwork, old CGI stuff was written in C and then Perl... after perl people stopped calling it CGI and started instead of refering to the scripting language in use. If you are on a Windows Server with IIS5(or over), then you will almost certainly have VBS installed so you can use ASP (unless you have a very paranoid Network Admin).
If the server is Apache and its on Unix, then you'll almost certainly have Perl somewhere already (I'd be shocked if it wasn't there). Because you're using MySQL the odds are you're server in UNIX of some flavour and Perl is the way forward for you.
Of course, there is always the possibility that you're on Windows with Apache as the server, or another HTTP server I've not mentioned. If that is the case, see if you can get your Admin to install Apache with PHP as its free.
ASKER
So you really don’t write CGI code you use CGI to run PERL code right?
Once again I apologies for not given all the specs from the beginning, our website is hosted on a Linux server running Red Hat 8.0 and like I said earlier we are using MySQL 4.0, I have a guy in staff that is really good with Linux and we are able to log to the back end whenever we need something. So the question is what should I look for to be able to run PERL scripts in this server, and really how do I get started on my script?
Thanks for your help!
Once again I apologies for not given all the specs from the beginning, our website is hosted on a Linux server running Red Hat 8.0 and like I said earlier we are using MySQL 4.0, I have a guy in staff that is really good with Linux and we are able to log to the back end whenever we need something. So the question is what should I look for to be able to run PERL scripts in this server, and really how do I get started on my script?
Thanks for your help!
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Great info!
Thanks for your help.
Thanks for your help.
PHP is really easy to pick up and is much like C (Java is also like C). In PHP handling files is easy, and getting form values is even easier.
Java is also good, but you'd need JSP's and servlets to get it going, if you install Resin then the deployment becomes easier than Apache with PHP.
If you want something easy to learn go with PHP, if you want to get going quickly with your existing knowledge get Resin.
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